Joey Leombruno

Joey Leombruno (died 1984) was a Philadelphia crime family enforcer who served as the bodyguard of loan shark Tony Gazzo during the 1970s and 1980s. In 1975, he wise-cracked at Rocky Balboa while driving him and Gazzo, asking him for the license number of the truck that hit his face, pointing out Balboa's wounds from his fight with Spider Rico the day before. In 1984, Gazzo was murdered by an unidentified perpetrator, and Leombruno - now unemployed and vulnerable - committed suicide in despair.